The price-war has begun in the direct-to-home market with the country's largest DTH company Dish TV with over three million subscribers getting ready to offer its connection virtually free. Any consumer who wants to buy a Dish TV connection will not have to pay for the set-top box, the hardware essential to access DTH services, which normally costs Rs 2,500.
Deal to help RCom reduce debt, Sun gain subscribers in new markets
IBM chairman, president & chief executive officer Samuel J Palmisano is scheduled to meet Reliance Communications chairman Anil Ambani
These phones are SIM-enabled, allowing consumers to move from one CDMA service to another, a flexibility hitherto available only on GSM handsets.
HD TV is all set to make a grand entry in India by the year-end. Direct-To-Home operators -- Dish TV and Reliance Communications -- are planning to offer HD TV set top boxes, though at a premium.
Telephony major Reliance Communications is believed to have short-listed three global IT companies - IBM, EDS and T-Systems - for its $1.5 billion outsourcing contract.
Flag Telecom, a 100 per cent subsidiary of Reliance Communication (RComm), has mandated Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank as lead managers for the maiden initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange.
The NSE Nifty ended at 3,643, up 3 points.
A DVR is a device that allows consumers to pause, record, play back, rewind and fast forward their favourite television shows. DTH companies are expected to slash DVRs box prices by nearly half to Rs 7,000-Rs 8,000 per unit. DVRs for cable channels would soon be available for between Rs 3,000 and Rs 4,000, industry sources said.
RComm will test launch its direct to home services Big TV this week, which would include some niche channels that are currently not available in India.
Reliance Jio Infocomm, expected to start commercial operations in the Indian telecom space in the next few months, had a net worth of Rs 5,026.16 crore, the company said in a statement submitted to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Monday.
Based on radio frequency identification technology, the phone will work like a credit or debit card.
Reliance Communications chairman Anil Ambani on Thursday met Finance Minister P Chidambaram and senior DoT officials, even as his company started examining the books of Hutchison Essar Ltd for a possible bid.
Arun Sarin is the chief executive officer of Vodafone Group Plc, the United Kingdom-based global mobile operator.
Reliance Communications has sought government approval for sponsoring a secondary Global Depository Receipts offering of up to $1.2 billion, representing 6.53 per cent of the total paid-up equity shares of the company.
Hutchison has made it clear to prospective bidders that it can sell its 67 per cent stake in Hutchison Essar without offering the first right of refusal to the Ruias who hold the remaining 33 per cent in the joint venture.
Company targets sale of one million handsets a year.
Reliance Communications is in discussions with American billionaire and financier George Soros to raise funds for the Hutch-Essar acquisition.
The Army has decided to operationalise command cyber operations and support wings as part of its efforts to modernise its online networks as well as to ensure their effective protection.
Its effort to stave off bankruptcy by selling spectrum to Reliance Jio got scuttled after the long legal and government delays for approvals.
Walt Disney finds another platform for its cartoons -- your mobile.
The NSE Nifty ended down 22 points at 4,264.
The NSE Nifty ended up 7 points at 4,259.
J M Morgan Stanley and UBS Securities have suggested that Reliance Communication Ventures has surpassed Bharti Airtel in terms of average usage but had lower revenue per subscriber.
Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Communication Ventures Ltd, whose market cap has touched Rs 65,000 crore
At a session with analysts last Monday, RComm chairman Anil Ambani said the Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) investments would be used for network expansion.
Following Reliance Communications' move to break the sub-Rs 1,000 price barrier in the black and white CDMA sets, mobile phone manufacturers are working hard to break the sub-Rs 2,000 barrier for GSM colour mobile phones.
Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance Communication Ventures Ltd has become an over Rs 90,000 crore (Rs 900 billion) company going by the conversion price of its just concluded Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds.
The telecom services provider had a net profit of Rs 1,395.14 crore (Rs 13.95 billion) in the third quarter of FY'08, RCom said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. RCom's total income rose by 18.75 per cent to Rs 5,671.82 crore (Rs 56.71 billion) for the quarter under review from Rs 4,776.26 crore (rs 47.76 billion) in the corresponding period last fiscal.
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's market capitalisation increased to Rs 86,000 crore (Rs 860 billion) following the listing of the group company -- Reliance Communication Ventures Ltd (RCoVL).
Stock specific action is seen with some of the prominent companies posting their quarterly numbers.
Critics say the programme, launched 10 months ago in India in collaboration with operator Reliance Communications, violates principles of net neutrality
Anil Ambani's Reliance Power tops the table with 3.46 million shareholders
The company had posted net profit of Rs 156 crore a year ago.
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 61 points at 16,782. It finally ended with a gain of 405 points at 17,126. Bharti Airtel zoomed 9.6% to Rs 925 and RCom soared 8.3% to Rs 577. ICICI Bank surged 4.5%, HDFC and SBI rallied 4% each, Satyam, NTPC and Larsen & Toubro were up over 1% each and ITC, ONGC, R-Energy, Wipro, Tata Steel, BHEL and M&M were other gainers. ACC dropped nearly 2% to Rs 783 while Maruti and DLF were down around 1%.
